MR. BROWNE’S PRECEPTS

SEPTEMBER

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. —Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

OCTOBER

Your deeds are your monuments. —inscription on an Egyptian tomb

NOVEMBER

Have no friends not equal to yourself. —Confucius

DECEMBER

Audentes fortuna iuvat. (Fortune favors the bold.) —Virgil

JANUARY

No man is an island, entire of itself. —John Donne

FEBRUARY

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. — James Thurber

MARCH

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

—Blaise Pascal

APRIL

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

—Sappho MAY

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can.

—John Wesley’s Rule

JUNE

Just follow the day and reach for the sun! —The Polyphonic Spree, “Light and Day”

POSTCARD PRECEPTS

CHARLOTTE CODY’S PRECEPT

It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.

REID KINGSLEY’S PRECEPT

Save the oceans, save the world! —Me!

TRISTAN FIEDLEHOLTZEN’S PRECEPT

If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they’re about to announce the lottery numbers! —Homer Simpson

SAVANNA WITTENBERG’S PRECEPT

Flowers are great, but love is better. —Justin Bieber

HENRY JOPLIN’S PRECEPT

Don’t be friends with jerks. —Henry Joplin

MAYA MARKOWITZ’S PRECEPT

All you need is love. —The Beatles AMOS CONTI’S PRECEPT

Don’t try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that’s uncool. — Amos Conti

XIMENA CHIN’S PRECEPT

To thine own self be true. —Hamlet, Shakespeare

JULIAN ALBANS’S PRECEPT

Sometimes it’s good to start over. —Julian Albans

SUMMER DAWSON’S PRECEPT

If you can get through middle school without hurting anyone’s feelings, that’s really cool beans. —Summer Dawson

JACK WILL’S PRECEPT

Keep calm and carry on! —some saying from World War II

AUGUST PULLMAN’S PRECEPT

Everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their life because we all overcometh the world. —Auggie